Credit Research Analyst (Corporate Sector) - Pune / Bangalore / Gurgaon

Job Description:We are seeking exceptionally intelligent, resourceful, and self-motivated individuals to be part of our Fundamental Credit Research team. The team resides within Investment Research and responsible for providing research and opinion related to fixed income securities globally.The research process involves analysis of the debt instrument issuers, including financial ratio analysis, financial forecasting of issuer’s financial statements, scenario analysis, capital structure, issuer profiling, peer comparison, evaluation of fundamental credit strength and issuing credit opinion on the issuers and specific debt issues.The individual will be part of the Fixed Income team based out of Bangalore. The team covers a wide variety of fixed income instrument issuers spanning across global, sectors and asses classes.The primary responsibilities include:Building and updating detailed credit models including KPI based projections, debt capital structure analysis, covenant analysis, distressed debt analysis and recovery analysis,Preparing credit reports, even update, real time earnings on companies under coverageAbility to perform Rising star and fallen angel analysisProviding opinion and rating recommendation on the issuersExperience in giving bond recommendation and performing relative valuationResponsible for client interaction and managing client expectationsExperience in writing analytical reports and earnings conference call summariesWork experience in working on HY and DD debt is desirablePrepare and implement checklist, dashboard, quality control toolsProvides input and ideas for improvement in TAT and efficiencyCore Skills RequiredMBA (Finance) with experience in building FIC models, writing initiations and real time earnings summaries. CFA and FRM is an added advantageExcellent analytical skills, good writing & communication skillsDemonstrates a very high degree of Initiative, self-leadership, and entrepreneurshipJob requires extremely high level of attention to detail, meticulousness and accountabilityStrong quantitative, analytical and interpretive skillsAbide by TAT and improve customer satisfaction over the periodMust have experience in financial modeling and credit reports for European corporate sector.